Samurai Pizza Cat

Buddy, most of the so-called "Spruit fairies" you are referring to are either living in New Zealand or moved down to KZN / Cape Town. The trails are now being maintained by Jozi trails. The original Spruit fairy is still involved, but only in a limited way. If the original Spruit Fairies and their friends did not cut down the tree that fell over that section of the trail a couple of years ago, you would not be having this conversation, as you would be riding in the street. ( the piece of tarmac on the left of your picture.) Start a new thread complaining about Hollard / Joburg parks and Jozi trails. Leave the "Spruit fairies" out of this; they might have built the jump, but they had nothing to do with the signage. Alternatively do the opposite of what the trail builders did when they got bored with flat single track...spend your own time and money and demolish the jump.

That gap, as with most gap jumps in the Spruit have been there for more than 5 years. Now that the someone finally takes responsibility and post a warning sign, people start to complain about the placement of said warning sign. Unbelievable.... What next? Are the sponsors going to be blamed for uneven, lose surfaces and the deep sand under the bridges? This is exactly the kind of thing that make sponsors reluctant to get involved with these sort of projects. Let's just go back to the wild west where there where no sponsored security guards, trail builders or signage of any kind. The Spruit was actually more fun back then. Crazy stuff all over the place. If it looks like a jump, it's a jump...not a hump. I made the " jump without looking" mistake only once and landed on my face. The Spruit is still mountain biking, the same rules apply as any where else: Look before you hit anything: That means stop, and have a look...

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It depends on what you define as "great" single track. Do you want natural features, manmade features, flow, or beautiful scenery? My choices: Climb all the way to the top and bomb down a feature filled track : Jonkershoek by a country mile!!! ( The flow on these tracks are also great!) Undulating single track with great features most of it under tree canopy: Garden Route trail Park Up, down and up and down again in 40deg with some cool features: Hoogekraal Flowy single track with varied terrain, great rock gardens, and the odd feature: Karkloof / Howick trails.In Johannesburg my favorite is the Spruit. That's just me; I like the features in the Spruit. None of the other trails in Gauteng have jumps that's on the same level. (I'm talking trails here, not jump lines like Wolwe or Huddle.) The other venue that's almost there is Hakahana. I would not categorize it as flowy or feature filled, but it's very good in the Gauteng terms. (The terrain unfortunately kills flow in the sense that it is very rocky.) Venues like Van Gaalens, Groenkloof, Rietvlei etc. have no or very little features and flow, so I would categorize them with the trails above. Features being jumps, berms and drops. The best single track depends from rider to rider. I like trail features and flow.

My (26") 11 speed XX1 shifter, cassette and rear derailleur will be in the classifieds pretty soon.

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When I get tired of the "highlighter yellow"....not soon. I love my bike! Especially the color. The color of the my Ali is the only reason I'm not on the carbon already.

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Josh what size are you? I have a pair of Teva Clipless for sale....used literally twice. Wrong size. R500.

Well...in my extremely unbiased opinion...Banshee and Transition comes to mind.

You need to get an "alternative" bike, your bike is way too main stream;)

It will go with your Star Wars Super 2R, Star Wars Fox MX Helmet, and your Star Wars Fiat 500...and your "I only buy my coffee at Deluxe" beard!

Shimano AM 7 flats or AM9 clipless. If it's good enough for the Atherton's, it's good enough for you. Cool Heat does not bring them in....better shop on CRC.